Ancient Church Orders

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Didascalia Apostolorum circa 230 AD

Syriac title: The Catholic Teaching of the Twelve Apostles and holy Discipes of our Redeemer

General

Didascalia Apostolorum | Wikipedia
Didascalia | Dictionary of the Apostolic Church
Didascalia Apostolorum | Encyclopedia of Ancient Christianity
The Didascalia Apostolorum | Liturgy: The Illustrated History

Greek

lost

Arabic

The Egyptian Liturgy of the Arabic Didascalia Cap. XXXVIII | Liturgies: Eastern and Western (Brightman)

Latin

Eine lateinische Palimpsestübersetzung der Didascalia apostolorum, 1896 edited by Edmund Hauler

Syriac

Didascalia apostolorum syriace (1854) edited by Paul de Lagarde

English

The Didascalia Apostolorum in English translated from the Syriac | Margart Dunlop Gibson

Didache aka The Teaching of the Twelve Apostles – first century

General

Didache | Wikipedia

Greek

in Codex Hierosolymitanus

Latin

English

Didache or Teaching of the Twelve Apostles (ca A.D. 140) | The Faith of the Early Fathers, Volumes 1–3
The Teaching of the Twelve Apostles | Roswell D. Hitchcock
The Oldest Church Manual Called the Teaching of the Twelve Apostles | Philip Schaff

Jewish synagogue prayers

The Apostolic Tradition

The Apostolic Tradition (ca. A. D. 215) | The Faith of the Early Fathers, Volumes 1–3
The So-Called Egyptian Church Order and Derived Documents | Dom R. Hugh Connolly
Hermeneia: The Apostolic Tradition | Paul F. Bradshaw, Maxwell E. Johnson, and L. Edward Phillips

Canons of the Apostles

Manuscripts

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Greek

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Latin

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Syriac

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Coptic

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English

Liturgia (Jacobite Anaphora)

General

An Introduction to the Liturgy of Saint James by Abba Seraphim, Metropolitan of Glastonbury | The British Orthodox Church, Metropolis of Glastonbury

Egyptian Church Order

The So-Called Egyptian Church Order and Derived Documents | Dom R. Hugh Connolly

Canons of Hippolytus

Testamentum Domini (Testament of our Lord)

an element of the Clementine Octateuch

The Glascow Octateuch | University of Glascow Library

I. Clementine Octateuch Church Order for ancient Oriental Orthodoxy and Church of the East

Syriac, Bohairic Coptic, Arabic

Component: Testamentum Domini
Component: Apostolic Church-Ordinance
Component: Apostolic Tradition (Arabic only)
Component: 8th book of Apostolic Constitutions

II. Alexandine Sinodos Church Order for ancient Coptic and Ethiopian Christianity

Component: Apostolic Church-Ordinance
Component: Apostolic Tradition
Component: 8th book of Apostolic Constitutions

III. Verona Palimpest a.k.a Fragmentus Veronese

Component: Didascalia Apostolorum
Component: Apostolic Church-Ordinance
Component: Egyptian Church Order

IV. Apostolic Constitutions (Constitutiones apostolicae)

a.k.a. Ordinances of the Holy Apostles through Clement; circa 380 AD, Syria

General

Apostolic Constitutions | The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
Apostolic Canons | The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
Apostolic Constitutions and Canons | The Anchor Yale Bible Dictionary
Apostolic Constitutions and Canons | The Lexham Bible Dictionary
Wikipedia: Apostolic Constitutions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostolic_Constitutions

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Component books 1-6: Didascalia Apostolorum
Component book 7: Didache
Component book 8: from Apostolic Tradition
Component final chapter book 8: Canons of the Apostles

Ancient Church Orders

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Components

Didascalia Apostolorum circa 230 AD

General

Greek

Arabic

Latin

Syriac

English

Didache aka The Teaching of the Twelve Apostles – first century

General

Greek

Latin

English

Jewish synagogue prayers

The Apostolic Tradition

Canons of the Apostles

Manuscripts

Greek

Latin

Syriac

Coptic

English

Liturgia (Jacobite Anaphora)

General

Egyptian Church Order

Canons of Hippolytus

Testamentum Domini (Testament of our Lord)

I. Clementine Octateuch Church Order for ancient Oriental Orthodoxy and Church of the East

II. Alexandine Sinodos Church Order for ancient Coptic and Ethiopian Christianity

III. Verona Palimpest a.k.a Fragmentus Veronese

IV. Apostolic Constitutions (Constitutiones apostolicae)

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